Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1894 — BRAINS IN FINGER TIPS. [ARTICLE]

BRAINS IN FINGER TIPS.

An Examlnattoa Bevemla Gray Matter la

the Nerve. of the Bltad. It may not be so generally known that recent post-mortem examinations of the bodies ot the blind reveal the fact that in the nerves at the ends of the fingers well-defined colls of gray matter had formed, identical in substance and in tell formation with the gray matter of the brain, remarks the Chicago Herald. What does this show? asks a writer in the Arena. If brain and nerve are practically identical, is it not plain that, instead of being confined ts toe cavity of the skull, there is not any part of the surface of the body that can be touched by a pin’s point without pricking the brain? It shows, moreover, I think, that, given proper development by recognition and use. a sensation including all the sen ations generally received through the other physical organs of sense may be received through the touch at the tips of the fingers. It proves that a man can think not alone in his head, but all over his body, and especially in the great nerve centers like the solar plexus, and the nerve ends, on the palms of the hands and the soles of the feet. The coming man will assuredly perceive and think in every part, from his head down to his feet. Need I suggest the importance of remembering in this connection how much in cur modern life is conveyed by the hand clasp, or the deep delight that comes to (overs in caressing touches, when impelleii to pat the hands or the cheek of the beloved one or to stroke her hair? It is through the emotional life that our sensitiveness is led from the physical to the psychic plane of sant-aUon.